{"id":255,"date":"2023-10-24T03:58:36","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T19:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/2023\/10\/24\/palace-museum-to-sell-all-tickets-online-by-october\/"},"modified":"2023-10-24T03:58:36","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T19:58:36","slug":"palace-museum-to-sell-all-tickets-online-by-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/palace-museum-to-sell-all-tickets-online-by-october\/","title":{"rendered":"Palace Museum To Sell All Tickets Online By October"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Palace Museum to sell all tickets online by October<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Palace Museum in Beijing, also known as the Forbidden City, will expand the sale of online tickets on a trial basis in July.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"640.jpg\" style=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/media.hiredchina.com\/FlquihPXmSZR178bDO8JUQOZR-xb?imageView2\/0\/format\/webp\/q\/75\" width=\"500\" height=\"441.42614601018676\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_73 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-5'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/palace-museum-to-sell-all-tickets-online-by-october\/#Photo_Yun519com\" title=\"Photo:Yun519.com\">Photo:Yun519.com<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-5'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/palace-museum-to-sell-all-tickets-online-by-october\/#Photo_997788com\" title=\"Photo:997788.com\">Photo:997788.com<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h5><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Photo_Yun519com\"><\/span>Photo:Yun519.com<br \/><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h5>\n<hr>\n<p>The trial run will last from July to October to test the feasibility of online sales of tickets for everyday, but tourists can still buy tickets at the entrances, according to the museum. <\/p>\n<p>After the trial period, the Palace Museum will decide whether to phase out the sale of paper tickets and sell all tickets via the internet. <\/p>\n<p>The all online sale may begin during the last 10 days of October. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"641.jpg\" style=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/media.hiredchina.com\/Fk8vQGtvSbhisXax0aKyDzAoHWTj?imageView2\/0\/format\/webp\/q\/75\" width=\"318\" height=\"633\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<h5><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Photo_997788com\"><\/span>Photo:997788.com<br \/><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h5>\n<hr>\n<p>By the May Day holiday in 2018, the museum may offer tickets for different periods throughout a day, in a bid to avoid too many tourists at a time. <\/p>\n<p>Currently, tourists can only book tickets online in advance, but they have to buy paper tickets at the entrances if they want to visit immediately. <\/p>\n<p>The Palace Museum began selling tickets online in September 2011. Currently about 50 percent of its tickets are sold online, with up to 70 percent booked online during holidays. <\/p>\n<p>The Palace Museum started to set a daily visitor cap of 80,000 on June 13, 2015. The cap was triggered 32 times in 2015, 48 in 2016, and 10 in 2017.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"webwxgetmsgimg 1.jpg\" style=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/media.hiredchina.com\/FlXXlKXBxtykYAuKbjvAxKMwIbVH?imageView2\/0\/format\/webp\/q\/75\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Palace Museum to sell all tickets online by October The Palace Museum in Beijing, also known as the Forbidden City, will expand the sale of online tickets on a trial &#8230;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}